in 1759,the author arrived in new york from france and wrote serveral eassays about life in america is this sentence active voice or passive voice

Question

• Active voice or passive voice. Identify whether the following sentence is active or passive

Answer 1

It's active voice because the subject (author) is the one doing the acting (writing) and the object (essays) is being acted upon:

 

"the author ... wrote ... several essays ..."

 

In passive voice, the subject is not performing the action of the verb; typically the subject is being acted upon, rather than the doing the acting:

 

"several essays ...  were written ... by the author ..."